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The Huckleberry Finn Controver - Online Term Paper

The Huckleberry Finn Controver

It is my opinion that the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain should be taught in schools because this book is very well written and can teach many lessons. I think that the people in today’s world, or maybe just the USA, try to be censor and shelter the children. I think that it is wrong to censor things, this book is supposedly wrong because it says the word nigger a lot and has death in it. I think that although the word nigger was used frequently in this book it showed the separation between the slaves and the owners and how Huck overcame this separation and saw through the societies views on niggers .
Racism is now a very big issue but when the book was ...

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comes from.
In the book there is much violence. "It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy naked, too. He’s been shot in de back."(pg. 50) The book is better with violence because it becomes more interesting to the reader. It becomes more of a real life situation than just a fairy tale world where nothing goes wrong, because in real life things do go wrong and people do get shot and killed. It is hard to read these kinds of things with death that are gruesome but it helps form feelings for the characters. Also it was necessary for them to find the dead man so that Huck didn’t have to worry about pap taking his money. In the scene where Jim finds pap we learn more about Jim and that he is a sensitive person and was cautious not to upset Huck by letting him see pap’s body.
Many people could have been offended by the stereotypes in this book. For example, "I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a nigger to argue."(pg. 78) In this ...

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Added: 1/22/2006 05:50:02 PM
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